Controls Partner, AVP assessing internal control frameworks and collaborating with business partners at Barclays. Leading control assessments and ensuring compliance with standards and procedures.
Responsibilities
Assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk
Collaborate with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
Identify and investigate potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
Develop reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
Execute reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
Implement adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.
Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
Requirements
A background in financial services with experience in risk oversight and control activities, including issue resolution, documentation of safeguards, and Risk and Control Self-Assessment
The ability to review processes, recognize potential risks, and establish the safeguards needed to reduce those risks. This includes evaluating requirements within Barclays Standards and ensuring existing documented safeguards meet expectations
Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to successfully complete assignments
Prior gap assessment experience (preferred)
FinTech experience (preferred)
Prior Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) experience
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